Armchair Book of Gardens: A Miscellany

by Jane Billinghurst

Book Overview

People have always created gardens. Once a link to the divine, gardens have been celebrated for centuries by painters, sculptors, poets, and novelists from all parts of the world. This marvelous collection of prose and images explores gardens from many angles?capturing their sensual, spiritual, aesthetic, social, and even political dimensions. Writers as varied as Pliny the Younger, Homer, Ji Cheng, Boccaccio, A. A. Milne, Colette, Willa Cather, Tom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762769890
• ISBN13: 9780762769896
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 8.2"